Krismar Glen Brillantes, quality assurance officer of PRC Pangasinan, said there is a shortage of
platelet concentrate in their blood bank.
All the patients referred with suspected inheritted
platelet defects based on clinical history and baseline screening tests were evaluated from January 2006 till December 2013.
Food and Drug Administration regulations state that blood establishments and transfusion services must assure adequate control of the risk for bacterial contamination of
platelets. * Most U.S.
has entered into a three-year group purchasing agreement with Blood Centers of America (BCA) for the company's
Platelet PGD Test, the company said.
PFA-100 Testing.--The PFA-100 (Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Tarrytown, New York) is an automated instrument that measures the ability of
platelets to form a
platelet plug.
Dr Mai Raouf, Director of the Dubai Blood Donation Centre at DHA said: "
Platelets are a type of blood cell that are essential for blood clotting.
In their journey towards creating decoy
platelets, the research team used a detergent treatment and centrifugation to strip natural human
platelets of their inner structures and remove their basic activation and aggregation abilities.
The eNOS enzyme activity was assessed based on a fluorimetric detection system (BioTek, USA) in
platelets and evaluated in Units of Fluorescence (UF) per min (m) per [10.sup.6]
platelet cells (n) (12).
In the new study, researchers led by Yumiko Matsubara of Keio University School of Medicine (Tokyo) built on previous efforts to prove that fat (adipose) tissue could be used to create a stem cell line that yielded functioning
platelets in just 12 days.
Per regulations, the dating period (or expiration date) for room-temperature stored
platelets is five days from the collection date, unless another approved dating period is specified.
Activated
platelets are said to produce thromboxane A2, which forms a therapeutic target in cardiovascular diseases (CVDs).